The COMPLEAT HISTORY of Harry

Harry was founded January, 1977.

One of these days, your webmaster really needs to get something special
written regarding Harry's historical First Meeting. And the origin of
the club's name. Suffice it to say, the Founders erected a monument that
has endured for over 24 years............

HARRY'S CANTONIAN SCIENCE FICTION YEAR: 1996

JANUARY 96 HARRY PROGRAM: _ORBITAL DECAY_ by Allen Steele.
Or any work in his universe of biker-deadhead space-station construction
workers.
HARRY ANNIVERSARY BANQUET was at Mozart's for brunch at 12:30 Feb. 11th.
FEBRUARY 96 HARRY PROGRAM: _MORE THAN HUMAN_ by Theodore Sturgeon.
Or "Baby Is Three", the core story of the novel.
Sandi compared Sturgeon's work to _Galactic Troubadors_ by A. M. Lightner.
Philip made points about H. G. Wells' creations, the Eloi and the Morloch, and
the evolution of humanity. Sandi thought the _gestalt_ concept in the novel
reminded one of both the IDIC in Star Trek, and Gordy Dickson's different
societies. All illustrate the need for balance in humanity.
Unofficial topics included a Boskone con report (M+D went), Philip's findings
at the book sale, photos & talk about Alderford, the local SCA marche.
MARCH 96 HARRY PROGRAM:_HALF THE DAY IS NIGHT_ by Maureen F. McHugh.
This is a remarkable novel set in an underwater city so large it has freeways
inside. Jean David Dai must struggle to survive the attacks of terrorists, a
hostile government, and the unforgiving ocean depths.
This book was out in paperback! So everybody was asked to get a copy please.
APRIL 96 HARRY PROGRAM: Maureen F. McHugh visited the meeting.
Harry was quite excited at this and over 30 people turned out to meet her.
The program included a reading of the short story "The Lincoln Train",
and a Q&A period, plus the usual nonsense. "The Lincoln Train", of course,
went on to win the Hugo award for Best Short Story of 1995.
Maureen F. McHugh is the critically acclaimed author of _China Mountain Zhang_,
_Half the Day Is Night_, and a number of shorter works.

This outstanding show featured original works by over thirty of America's
premiere Science Fiction & Fantasy artists, and a costume party.
Harry's meetings that featured a special guest were dubbed as " a literature
program sponsored by Harry".
Special Summer Reading programs were based on Dean Morrisey's _Ship Of Dreams_
and ran throughout the season.
The Museum of Art held family and young artist workships on stf-nal themes;
Alien Masks, Fantasy Land, SFX Photography, Design of Symbols for
Intersellar Communication, Super Heroes, Time Machines, and so on.
The Video Safari tape rental chain did an 88 cent special for SF flicks all
summer.
May 17th - Intergalactic Renaissance Ball was held at the Cultural Center.
Prizes were awarded for best alien, best Renaissance, etc.
MAY 96 HARRY PROGRAM: Joe Clifford Faust visited the meeting!
Mr. Faust is the author of _A Death Of Honor_, _The Company Man_, _Desperate
Measures_, _Precious Cargo_, and _The Essence Of Evil_, the last three being
the Angel's Luck series. He had been to Harry before, to read us samples of
his forthcoming Ferman's Devils series, and his return was greeted with
enthusiasm.
June 7th - Brannon Braga, producer & writer of ST:TNG & ST:Voyager spoke
at Canton Museum of Art. The event was titled "From Canton To the Final
Frontier".
Braga spent his formative years here in Canton. He was a student in the
class of Pavilions of Wonder's Guest Curator, Dr. Sam Vasbinder, and was a
1983 McKinley High School graduate.
Mr. Braga provided brief previews of (at the time) upcoming _ST:Voyager_
episodes as part of a slide-show and videotape showing. "Basics, Part 2"
would feature the crew reduced to fighting with sticks & stones, while the
killer from the recent "MindMeld" episode & the holographic doctor save
Voyager. Braga promises there will be no more Kazons after this episode.
There will however be a Ferengi episode in the future. The show "Sacred
Ground" will feature Janeway on a great Quest. It will be plotted similarly
to the film "A Man Called Horse", and sounds like it should be full of spirit
guides & suchlike.
Bragga revealed the BIG new episode was plotted to be the Star Trek 30th
Anniversary tribute. Vulcan Tuvok served on Capt. Sulu's ship, and Janeway
experiences it through some means. Both George Takei and Grace Lee Whitney
were revealed to be in the episode.
Mr. Braga also discussed the use of the Paramount Star Trek script submission
hotline.
JUNE 96 HARRY PROGRAM: Dr. Sam Vasbinder visited the meeting.
Dr. Vasbinder was the curator of the awesome and artistically successful
Pavilions Of Wonder art show.
He related Joe DeVito's reaction to his review in the Beacon Journal.
"Artists visualize the worlds writers present to us."
But what if it's not the way I imagined it?
He discusses Whelan from his older stuff up thru Passages.
Whelan's Wave:Malthus needs to be hung a little higher. The wave is like
something from the past.
Artists produce textures, the feel of cloth, the feel of ALIEN objects.
Mattingly does pure invention of forms that have not existed before.
JULY 96 HARRY PROGRAM: R. M. Meluch visited the meeting.
Ms. Meluch is the author of _Sovereign_, _Wind Dancers_, _Wind Child_,
_Jerusalem Fire_, _War Birds_, _Chicago Red,_ and _The Queen's Squadron_. She
is a frequent panel participant (antagonist?) at area SF conventions and is
well-known to many of Harry's members.
Meluch spoke on the topic, "What is SF today?". Most SF today, she suggested,
is to boldly go where everybody and his dog went before. It is a day of
multi-volume serials.
SF should be conceiving of new technologies. On TV, the weapons sights on SF
series need improvement, they're no better than the ones used in _Combat_ or
_Rat Patrol_.
Leaps in communication can be predicted. We have affordable "Star Trek"
communicators now, what will the future bring? The world is shrinking, but
space has not. Instellar distances still seem insurmountable. This makes for
a scientific challenge when writing SF. Meluch designed special space
combat strategies to use when FTL sonar-like tracking devices could "ping"
enemy ships. SF can help one release aggression. Instead, today's SF often
panders to the paranoiac. For example, Michael Crichton is a whore.
As to the future of politics, the balance of freedoms will become an
increasingly important issue. Meluch quoted John Adams on democracy. She
read from one of her works about a race that had 11 fingers, and so saw
equality in a greatly differnt light than Terrans. While SF stirs you up,
modern literary fiction puts you back in the box and tells you to calm down.
Attendance = 14.
July 13th - Harry's Summer Frolic at Sandi's.
July 14th - LAST DAY for PAVILIONS OF WONDER.
AUGUST 96 HARRY PROGRAM: Discussion, Summer TV & Movies.
After several months of guest speakers, we had a lot to talk about.
Independence Day was the top box office movie ever. Babylon 5 had a dynamite
2-part episode, "War Without End". We weren't to see any new Babylon 5
episodes until October, so let's enjoy the reruns! Fox ran the new Dr. Who
episode/pilot, which featured the Doctor smooching some rather unbelievable
heart surgeon. Odo lost his morph powers, at least for the summer hiatus.
And so it goes...
AUG 29-SEP 2 WorldCon/L.A.Con 3, Anaheim, CA
SEPTEMBER 6-8 HOPE CON 96, the Klingon Assault Group International Convention,
at the Newmarket Hilton in downtown Canton, Ohio. Tony Todd (Kurn) is GOH.
The _IKV Night Terror_ was the force behind this one, and Harry wished the
ship & her crew the best of luck with the con.
SEPTEMBER 96 HARRY PROGRAM: J.R.R. Tolkien's unpublished final chapter of
The Lord Of the Rings. This appears in Sauron Defeated, Vol IX of the History
Of Middle-Earth, Chapter XI, The Epilogue.
Sam Gamgee and his children discuss the events of the Great War, and prepare
for a visit from the King. Also discussed Trek, Sheffield, Asimov.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1996 - PARTY! STAR TREK 30th ANNIVERSARY.
Started at 1:00 PM, the annual Harry Star Trek Anniversary Party was at Mary +
Doug's house. This was a punch & munchies party, not a full meal party.
OCTOBER 4-6 CONTEXT, Harley (by the Continent), Columbus
OCTOBER 96 HARRY PROGRAM: _Guilty Pleasures_ by Laurell K. Hamilton.
OCT 25-27, OVFF - OHIO VALLEY FILK FEST.
NOVEMBER 96 HARRY PROGRAM: _The Diamond Age_ by Neal Stephenson.
DECEMBER 96 HARRY PROGRAM: _ST:TNG_FIRST CONTACT_ (film) discussed. Also
discussed: the publication of _FERMAN'S DEVILS_, part 1 of Pembroke Hall
by Joe Clifford Faust.

HARRY MEETINGS FOR 1997

JANUARY MEETING: _On Basilisk Station_, an Honor Harrington series novel,
by David Weber. This novel was well received! A lot of great action and
interesting plot and characterization.
HARRY ANNIVERSARY PARTY - Held January 26 at Don Pancho's.
FEBRUARY MEETING: _Ferman's Devils_ by Joe Clifford Faust. This was very
well liked by EVERYBODY at Harry. Not everyone raved, but many did. Scott
passed along that it had MADE a weekend for him. He thought it was the
funniest thing he ever read. We discussed a very bad review of the novel
from the P.A.R.S.E.C. fanzine, and decided that reviewer just had no sense
of humor at all. We read some of our favorite commercial scripts out loud
to each other. It was discussed that a lot of the pleasures of the novel
were the same sort one gets from reading Dilbert, like a chance to laugh at
the types one finds in an office that you have to work with on a normal
day. Scott especially mentioned that several types were a perfect match
for characters and policies at his office. It was well remarked how
interesting it was to read a book when parts of it had been enacted for us
at the May '96 meeting. (10 in attendance)
Feb 14, 1997: Star Wars:A New Hope re-released, the 2 sequels followed.
MARCH MEETING: The Worst Science Fiction novel you ever read. 10 att.
We always talk about pretty good SF novels as topics of discussion. For
contrast, the topic of discussion was the WORST. Think science fiction, not
fantasy. Think really BAD. We came ready to talk about why it was bad.
TOWER OF ZANID, DeCamp
BORED OF THE RINGS, Lampoon
TEK, Shatner
Some novel about space yacht racing
NOVA, Delaney
3rd GOR novel and on, Norman
NUMBER OF THE BEAST, Heinlein
CHICAGO RED, Meluch
"Bosom Heavers"
SPACE CAPTIVES OF THE GOLDEN MEN
LORD FOUL'S BANE, Donaldson
PROSTHOS PLUS, Anthony
DUPLICATED MAN, Blish
JOSHUA, SON OF NONE, Nancy Freedman
THE SUNBIRD, Wilbur Smith
Some book by Walinsky
APRIL MEETING:The book for March was the original script of Star
Trek's _City On the Edge Of Forever_ by Harlan Ellison. This was out in
the stores & was available from SF Book Club too. Ellison always spoke out
against the treatment of his script by Trek's producers, this book is
purported to show us what it was he's been grousing about.
Harry's Rites Of Spring Party
MAY MEETING: Forgotten classics. Steven mentioned _Seeds of Change_ by
Thomas Monteleone. Lightner's Galactic Troubadors. Laser Books'
Crash Landing. On Iduna. Farley's THE ISLAND STALLION RACES. FLATLAND.
Anthony's BIO OF A SPACE TYRANT. Somebody cloned Kennedy.
24MAY _ RITES OF SPRING at Howard and Jeanne's.
JUNE MEETING: Discussion, series, the Discworld books, by Terry Pratchett.
JULY MEETING: _Green Mars_ by Kim Stanley Robinson. It was
compared to Ayn Rand for amount of political and economic dialog. Roberta
& others mentioned that you got to know Mars real well. It was described
as like RAH's _Moon Is a Harsh Mistress_, in that _Green Mars_ did for Mars
what the Heinlein novel did for Luna. A.C. Clarke's _The Sands Of Mars_
was cited for terraforming similarities.
ALSO DISCUSSED: The flicks _Men In Black__ (thumbs up) and _Contact_ (mixed
reviews).
AUGUST 1 - Harry's Summer Frolic Party at Sandi's.
AUGUST MEETING: Mars, any novel about Mars. Only 4 attending.
A general discussion meeting.
AUG 28-SEP 1, 1997 WorldCon/LoneStarCon 2, San Antonio, TX.
SEPTEMBER MEETING: Any STAR WARS novel. Star TREK novels are BETTER than
Star WARS novels. Norma reads them to find out what happened to the
characters. Sandi says Lucas' restrictions tie the authors down too far.
Roberta complains that things in Solo's life change but Solo doesn't.
OCTOBER MEETING: Anne Rice's _Memnoch The Devil_.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1ST - Harry Halloween Party at M+D's.
Oct 31-Nov 2: OVFF - Ohio Valley Filk Fest, Columbus.
NOVEMBER MEETING: Hugo Award Winning "Bicycle Repairman" by Bruce Sterling.
DECEMBER MEETING:Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein vs. Starship Troopers,
the new film.

HARRY MEETINGS FOR 1998....

Harry Holidays Party.... combined with....

Babylon 5 Prequel & Pilot Night - January 4th, M+D's. The Holiday
and Babylon 5 Party started at 7:00 PM! This was a snack & pop kind
of party. The new B5 prequel, "IN THE BEGINNING" aired at 8:00 PM on TNT.

JANUARY MEETING: The Postman, the Kevin Costner movie Vs.The Postman, the David Brin novel.

Jan. 24th, 1998 - Harry Anniversary Party Our anniversary is traditionally
celebrated at a different local restaurant every year. This year 13 members
celebrated Harry's 21st anniversary at Hartville Kitchen.

FEBRUARY MEETING:The Golden Key, a novel by Melanie Rawn,
Jennifer Roberson, and Kate Elliott. This is a BIG novel, 889 pages, so
plan a little time ... this one may carry over into March.

OCT 8-10: CONTEXT, a reader-oriented con in Columbus. M+D went, and had a great time with
R.M. Meluch, Maureen McHugh, and GOH Robert J. Sawyer. Their room at the non-con hotel kept
catching on fire however, and they left early.

OCTOBER MEETING: Camp Concentration by Thomas Disch.

OCT 29-31: Ohio Valley Filk Fest, Columbus

NOVEMBER MEETING: To Say Nothing Of The Dog, by Connie Willis. This year's
Hugo-winning novel.

HARRY MEETINGS FOR THE YEAR 2000...

JANUARY MEETING: The Stephen King novel from LEGENDS by Robert Silverberg,
published by Tor. This short Novel is named The Little Sisters of Euleria.

Harry Anniversary dinner was held at the Fighter Group and Bomber Squadron on Sunday, Jan.23.

FEBRUARY 21st MEETING:HELD AT THE NORTH BRANCH LIBRARY.
TOPIC FOR DICUSSION:Recent SF films, Bicentennial Man, and Galaxy Quest.

MARCH 20th MEETING: HELD AT THE DOWNTOWN LIBRARY BOARDROOM.
TOPIC FOR DICUSSION:Boddekker's Demons, by Joe Clifford Faust. Joe is
a fine author of several science fiction novels. Link here.
This novel was published as the sequel to Ferman's Devils. It is available in the
Science Fiction Book Club's omnibus edition, Handling It: How I Got Rich and Famous, Made
Media Stars Out Of Common Street Scum and Almost Got the Girl.

April 10th, 2000 - RAY BRADBURY WEEK begins in Akron, Ohio.

April 13, 2000 - Free Ray Bradbury lecture at EJ Thomas Hall in Akron. Doors open at 7PM.
Seating is first come, first serve. EJ Thomas Hall is at 330-972-7570.

APRIL 17th MEETING: TO BE HELD AT THE DOWNTOWN LIBRARY BOARDROOM.
TOPIC FOR DICUSSION: The short novel, The Seventh Shrine, by Robert
Silverberg. This novel appears in the anthology Legends, edited by Robert Silverberg.
The novel is set in Silverberg's Majipoor Universe, home of the award-winning novel,
Lord Valentine's Castle.

MAY 15th MEETING: MEETING PLACE TO BE DETERMINED.
TOPIC FOR DICUSSION:TBD.

June 28th thru July 2, 2000: SFRA (The Science Fiction Research Association Annual Conference)
is to be held in Cleveland; Dick Lupoff is GOH.

INDEPENDENCE DAY - Summer Frolic 2000! A pool party, at 2pm onwards, July 4th, at
Hugh and Norma's place. (In case of rain, we'll try again on Saturday the 8th).

JULY 17th MEETING: LOUISVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY IS THE MEETING PLACE. The topic for
discussion is A Deepness In The Sky, a novel by Vernor Vinge. This book is the prequel
to A Fire On The Deep. The novel is also a nominee for the Hugo for Best Novel.

AUGUST 21st MEETING: LOUISVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The topic was the
Hugo-nominated short story "Ancient Engines" by Michael Swanwick.
The last regular meeting before Chicon 2000.

SEPTEMBER MEETING: "The Wood Boy" by Raymond E. Feist. Thumbs Up=0, Thumbs Down=5.
This story is found in the anthology Legends,
edited by Robert Silverberg. "The Wood Boy" is set in Feist's Riftwar Saga world.

OCTOBER 16th MEETING: LOUISVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The topic is the Hugo-nominee novel Darwin's Radio, by Greg Bear. This is a fascinating book about genetics, little children, medicine, an auto trip across southern Ohio, Big Science and the fate of the human race. It's a thick fella, so you better be reading it already. (grin)

HARRY HALLOWEEN party was at M+D's. About 20 people came in costume to eat hot ham and swiss sandwiches, watch the movie Gattaca, get their tarot read by Sandi, and otherwise commingle.

NOVEMBER 20th MEETING: LOUISVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Harry discussed Echoes In Time, by Andre Norton and Sherwood Smith. Echoes In Time is the 1999 novel in Norton's "Ross Murdock (Time War)" series. The novels of the "Time Trader" series are The Time Traders, Galactic Derelict, The Defiant Agents, Key Out Of Time, Firehand, and Echoes In Time.

HARRY HOLIDAYS party was Dec 2nd 2000 at Howard and Jeanne's. A nice group of members sat and shot the breeze over various topics late into the night. A great party!

DECEMBER 18th 2000: PERRY BRANCH (STARK COUNTY DIST LIBRARY). The Harry Time Capsule was opened at this meeting! Some years ago, Mike Rembert convinced us all to write a fanzine, with each contribution being a prediction of life in the new millenium. As the millenial year came to a close, we at last read the zine, and celebrated the beginning of the 21st century. For more details, see the January 2001 entry below.

HARRY MEETINGS FOR THE YEAR 2001

The January 2001 meeting was held at the Jackson Branch Library.

"Harry's Time Capsule 1990-2001" was the topic of discussion for
the meeting. In 1990, Mike Rembert asked Harry members to
write down their predictions for life in the new millenium. Several
members prepared contributions, and with Howard Hartzog's help, these were
assembled into a one-shot zine, the Time Capsule. Rather than burying it,
copies were distributed to all the current members. The turn of the
millenium was set for the date to "open" the Time Capsule.
We spent the meetings reading our contributions aloud, then
commenting on the predictions. Where members were absent,
others read for them.
Old science fiction fans aren't bad at crystal gazing. Some of
Harry's predictions for 2001 included:
o A new space station in orbit.
o Years of Hubble Telescope successes erase the stigma of early
failure.
o Window-size satellite dishes challenge cable TV.
o Chrysler under foreign management.
o Increases in home schooling.
o SF con attendance has dropped dramatically.
o Popular music is so nihilistic that no adult can bear to hear it.
o Computer-controlled stage management (lights, mics, etc) for
theaters.
o VCRs that can skip recording commercials.
o Voice recognition for computer security and computing in
general.
o New metallic threads used in fiber arts.
o Workfare replacing welfare.
o More recycling.
o Electric vehicles on the roads.
o Disappearance of the middle class as the gulf between rich and
poor widens.
o Computer jobs eliminate lower class jobs.
o Little guys swallowed up by big corporations.
o Computer shopping for food, clothing, toiletries and toys.
o Electronic greeting cards.
o Israel becomes more militant.
o Pacific Rim market domination collapses.
Of course, like any Cassandra, we don't mention the wrong
predictions here!

HARRY ANNIVERSARY:Harry's 24th Anniversary Dinner was held Sunday January 28th. We had 20
people show, which was really great! The meal was held at King's Chinese
Buffet. The selection was pretty good there.
Several members came over to Mary + Doug's after the dinner for Space
Shuttle birthday cake, a dessert (hmm, torte?) provided by Norma, other
goodies, and conversation.

FEBRUARY 2001 MEETING:We had a small attendance for the February meeting, held on President's Day at Jackson Branch. Just 5 made it. Still a good discussion.
The on-topic was Ursula K. LeGuin's story from the *Far Horizons*
anthology, "Old Music and the Slave Women". The story is set in her
Ekumen universe, what I always called the Hainish universe. This is the
setting for her novels and stories unified by the instantaneous
transceiver, the ansible. *The Left Hand Of Darkness* and *The
Disposessed* are also set in this story cycle.
"Old Music and the Slave Women" was set on Werel, the planet for several
of her recent SF stories. Werel's sociology includes drastic separation
of men and women occuring at puberty, and planetwide practice of slavery.
Old Music is the representative of the galactic Ekumen on Werel, and is
used as a pawn by various factions in a planetary civil war. Not a cheery
tale.
The main off-topic was to try and think of great ideas for something
special to do for Harry's Silver Anniversary year in 2002.

MARCH MEETING - JACKSON BRANCH LIBRARY - 3RD MONDAY IN MARCH (MARCH 19th): We'll discuss the story "Investment Counselor" by Orson Scott Card. You'll find the story in the Far Horizons anthology edited by Robert Silverberg. "Investment Counselor" is set in Card's Ender Series, so any discussion of that literary universe will be on-topic.

APRIL MEETING - Louisville Public Library - 3RD MONDAY IN APRIL (APRIL 16th): We discussed the story "The Boy Who Would Live Forever" by Frederik Pohl. You'll find the story in the Far Horizons anthology edited by Robert Silverberg. "The Boy Who Would Live Forever" is set in Pohl's Heechee Universe, so any discussion of that literary universe,including the novel Gateway was on-topic.

MAY MEETING - Louisville Public Library.
Monday night's meeting was unique. Part of it was held in the Ladies' Restroom due to a Tornado Alert. The new location did little to slow the discussion much to the amazement of the library staff. The discussion was lively with thumbs up for the story, "Mars is no Place for Children" by Mary Turzillo, the Nebula Winner for short story. (Sandi)

JUNE MEETING, 3rd MONDAY (JUNE 18th) - NORTH BRANCH LIBRARY. Topic of discussion: Star Trek: Voyager, especially the final episode, End Game. The Voyager has had a seven-year run, with former Cantonian Brannon Braga sharing command. Did it end with a bang, or as the Akron Beacon Jornal review stated, with a whimper? Nine members attended.
We had a lively discussion of the Voyager finale. We described the plot in general for those who hadn't bothered to watch it. Everybody had a scene that reminded them of something - for example, Voyager's hiding on (or in) the Borg Sphere was reminiscent of the Millenium Falcon hiding on the Empire ship in Star Wars. We discussed the way the plot allowed Janeway to have her cake and eat it too... the consequences of her decisions erased by the time-travel plot device.
This talk spilled over into other Trek talk - how good the James Blish original series books were, the other series, etc. Some factoids about the new "Enterprise" series were discussed.
Off topic discussions at the meeting and at Milk and Honey afterwards included:
the new Nero Wolfe series on A&E and other cozy detective series,
the cancelled Pern TV series,
the sociological book on fandom - _Science_Fiction_Culture_ by Camillle Bacon-Smith,
the new Planet of the Apes movie and "Congo" with its Jewish killer apes.
It was VERY nice to be home at the North Branch library and Milk and Honey!!!

Get a copy of the anthology Far Horizons, edited by Robert Silverberg. It is being used for multiple Harry meeting topics in 2001.

HARRY SUMMER FROLIC I, June 23rd, 6:30, at Sandi and Rod's.

JULY MEETING - 3rd MONDAY (JULY 16th) - NORTH BRANCH LIBRARY. Topic of discussion: The short story "Orphans of the Helix", by Dan Simmons. The story is found in the Far Horizons anthology edited by Robert Silverberg. This story is set in the Hyperion Cantos universe, so any discussion of that universe would be on-topic.

DECEMBER MEETING - The Hugo-winning short story, "Different Kinds of Darkness",
by David Langford. Copies will be provided at the Oct and Nov meetings.

Harry Holidays party... details TBD.

Christmas season: The 1st Lord Of the Rings movie opens.

HARRY'S SILVER ANNIVERSARY YEAR - HARRY IN THE YEAR 2002

2002 is Harry's Silver Anniversary Year - Let's freak the mundanes! Some ideas
bandied about include: getting some classy SF art for Harry's meeting
room at North Branch, making donations to fannish charities, having a film
screening/private party at the Palace, making a special reunion drive for
the anniversary party by tracking down old members, etc.

January 5, 2002 - STAR WARS: THE MAGIC OF MYTH exhibition closes.

JANUARY MEETING - The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, the new film based on J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpiece.

PARTY! HARRY ANNIVERSARY at Papa Bear's. Jan 20th, 1 pm.

FEBRUARY MEETING - The pilot movie, Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers.

PARTY! WINTER BLAST at Howard and Jeanne's. Sunday, Feb 24th, 1 pm.

MARCH MEETING - The Time Machine, in any incarnation.

PARTY! HARRY PATRICK'S DAY at Chicken Manor.

APRIL MEETING (APRIL 15TH)- The topic for the meeting is the novel, The Mind Pool, by Charles Sheffield. Thanks, Ed, for suggesting this.

PARTY! SPRING FLING (RITES OF SPRING) Saturday, April 20th, 6-ish, at Linda's. A chicken dish for the main course. Usual party protocol, $2 per fan to the kitty, bring a dish.

JUNE PARTY! SPACE TRAVELLERS. At Hugh and Norma's pool. Kathy came to her first Harry party.

HARRY'S SILVER ANNIVERSARY YEAR - HARRY IN THE YEAR 2002

2002 is Harry's Silver Anniversary Year - Let's freak the mundanes! Some ideas
bandied about include: getting some classy SF art for Harry's meeting
room at North Branch, making donations to fannish charities, having a film
screening/private party at the Palace, making a special reunion drive for
the anniversary party by tracking down old members, etc.

PARTY! HARRY SILVER ANNIVERSARY REUNION PICNIC. Saturday July 6th. 3:00 pm until Dusk. Westbrook Veterans Memorial Park, Canton, Ohio. Usual party protocol, bring a dish and $2.
As of July 4th, everything is on track for the picnic.

HARRY'S ONLY HAVING ONE MORE MEETING AT THE Bethel Lutheran Church, 701 Broad NW IN CANTON, OHIO, THE JANUARY MEETING. Thanx and a tippo the Harry hat to Bethel Lutheran for the rescue. Due to the passage of the library levy, HARRY CAN NOW RETURN TO MEETING AT THE NORTH BRANCH LIBRARY, BEGINNING IN FEBRUARY.

HARRY IN THE YEAR 2004

You already missed...

JAN MEETING - HOLIDAY MOVIE SEASON.

Harry Anniversary Party - CHOP HOUSE at the MCKINLEY GRAND.

FEB MEETING - THE QUANTUM ROSE - Catherine Asaro.

MAR MEETING - BONES OF THE EARTH - Michael Swanwick.

APRIL MEETING - Kiln People by David Brin.

PARTY! RITES OF SPRING. SATURDAY MAY 8TH AT M+Ds.

MAY MEETING - OUTLANDER by Diane Gabaldon.

JUNE MEETING - Martians Go Home by Fredric Brown.

PARTY! SUMMER FROLIC!

JULY MEETING - FOR US THE LIVING - Robert A. Heinlein.

The Pennsic Wars.

AUGUST MEETING - COYOTE - Allen Steele.

2004 WORLDCON: Boston www.noreascon.org

SEPTEMBER MEETING - The Summer Movie Season.

PARTY! STAR TREK 38th BIRTHDAY PARTY.

OCTOBER MEETING - Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

PARTY! HARRY HALLOWEEN.

NOVEMBER MEETING - HUGO-WINNING NOVEL TBD.

DECEMBER MEETING - HUGO-WINNING SHORT STORY TBD.

PARTY! HARRY HOLIDAYS.

HARRY IN THE YEAR 2005

JAN MEETING - our last meeting at the Bethel Lutheran Church, for now...

Harry Anniversary Party - Sahara Grille in Thursday's Plaza.

FEB MEETING - HARRY'S TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO THE NORTH BRANCH LIBRARY! And the short story, "The Sandman, the Tinman, and the Betty B" by C.J. Cherryh, from 30th Anniversary DAW.

MARCH 21st MEETING - The short story, "The Big Picture", by Timothy Zahn
from 30th Anniversary DAW.

APRIL 18th MEETING - The Collapsium, by Will McCarthy.

PARTY! RITES OF SPRING! Saturday April 30 6-ish at M+D's place.

May, 2005: STAR WARS EPISODE 3 RELEASED

May 13th - Finale episode of Enterprise.

MAY 16th MEETING - Blind Lake, by Robert Charles Wilson.

JUNE 20th MEETING - "Home For The Old Ones", by Fred Pohl, from
30th Anniversary DAW.

PARTY! SUMMER FROLIC!

JULY 18th MEETING - The End of Star Wars, The End of Star Trek, The End of the Multiverse.

The Pennsic Wars.

AUGUST 15th MEETING - The novel Collapsium.

2005 WORLDCON: Glasgow.

SEPTEMBER 19th MEETING - The Summer Movie Season.

PARTY! STAR TREK 39th BIRTHDAY PARTY.

You already missed...

OCTOBER 17th MEETING - A film of Isaac Asimov.

PARTY! HARRY HALLOWEEN.Daturday October 29th, 6-ish, at Howard and Jeanne's.

DECEMBER 19th MEETING - HUGO-WINNING SHORT STORY "Travels With My Cats" by Mike Resnick, from Asimov's Magazine Feb 2004 issue.

PARTY! HARRY HOLIDAYS.

HARRY IN THE YEAR 2006

JANUARY 16th MEETING - Due to the holiday closing of the North Branch of the Stark County District Library, the January meeting will be held at Bethel Lutheran Church. - The topic of discussion will be the novel Coyote Rising by Allen Steele.

PARTY! _ The annual Harry Anniversary party.

FEBRUARY 20th MEETING - Fantasy night. Any book in the George R.R. Martin series, A Song of Ice and Fire.

MARCH 20th MEETING - "Downtime", by C.S. Friedman, a short story published in DAW 30th Anniversary, edited by Elizabeth R. Wollheim.

APRIL 17th MEETING - Myriad, Tour of the Merrimack #1, by R. M. Meluch. With any luck the author will be here to discuss this with us.

PARTY! - The annual Rites of Spring.

MAY MEETING - "The Home Front", by Brian Stableford, a short story published in DAW 30th Anniversary, edited by Elizabeth R. Wollheim.

MAY 26-28, 2006 - MARCON 41.

JUNE 2006 MEETING - Astro Turf; the Private Life of Rocket Science, by M. G. Lord.

JULY 2006 MEETING - Galactic Patrol or any novel in the Lensman series.

HARRY IN THE YEAR 2006

The topic of many future Harry meetings will be a story from the book,
30th Anniversary DAW Science Fiction, available for $6 at Borders.

PARTY! Summer Splash at Hugh and Norma's, July 23rd.

AUGUST 2006 MEETING - "Aboard the Beatitude", a short story by Brian W. Aldiss, from the collection 30th Anniversary DAW Science Fiction.

2006 WorldCon: Los Angeles. LAcon IV will choose the works to read for the November and December meetings.

SEPTEMBER 2006 MEETING - Summer Movie and TV Season.

PARTY! Star Trek's Birthday Party.

OCTOBER 2006 MEETING - War of the Worlds

PARTY! Harry Halloween.

NOVEMBER 2006 MEETING - _Spin_, by Robert Charles Wilson. The Hugo winning novel announced at LAcon IV.

DECEMBER 2006 MEETING - "Tk'tk'tk", by David D. Levine. M+D will make copies of this and bring them to the meetings. The Hugo winning short story announced at Lacon IV.

PARTY! Harry Holidays.

HARRY IN THE YEAR 2007

The topic of many future Harry meetings will be a story from the book,
30th Anniversary DAW Science Fiction, available for $6 at Borders.You already missed...

JANUARY 2007 MEETING - AT THE Bethel Lutheran Church, 701 Broad NW IN CANTON. Movie fanac as Harry reviews the holiday film season. The New Year in Media will be discussed.

NOVEMBER 2007 MEETING - The Hugo winning novel announced at Nippon 2007.

... Hugo nominees for Best Novel are: Eifelheim by Michael Flynn, His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik, Glasshouse by Charles Stross, Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge, Blindsight by Peter Watts. And the winner is: Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge.

DECEMBER 2007 MEETING - The Hugo winning short story announced at Nippon 2007.

PARTY! Harry Holidays.

HARRY IN THE YEAR 2008

You already missed...

JANUARY 2008 MEETING - AT THE North Canton Public Library. Movie fanac as Harry reviews the holiday film season. The New Year in Media will be discussed.

PARTY! Harry's 32nd Anniversary. Held at FIELDCREST in Greater Canton.

FEBRUARY 2008 MEETING - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, a novel by J K Rowling.

You still have time to make it to...

PARTY! Winter Blast. March 1st, 6-ish, at Faerwood.

MARCH 2008 MEETING - The Road, the novel by Cormac McCarthy that was an Oprah book club selection.

APRIL 2008 MEETING - Orphans of Chaos by John C. Wright.

PARTY! The Rites of Spring.

MAY 2008 MEETING - Seeker, a novel by Jack McDevitt.

JUNE 2008 MEETING - Old Man's War, by John Scalzi.

PARTY! Summer Frolic!

JULY 2008 MEETING - Mike Resnick's series, Starship: will be discussed. The 1st novel in the series is Starship:Mutiny, followed by Starship:Pirate, Starship:Mercenary, and Starship:Rebel.

2008 WorldCon: Denver. Denvention 3 will choose the works that Harry will read for the November and December meetings.

AUGUST 2008 MEETING - Journey To the Center of the Earth, a new movie, a novel by Jules Verne, an old movie, an older movie, a TV series, a ride, and a meme running through many other SF works.

SEPTEMBER 2008 MEETING - TBD, probably Summer Movie and TV Season.

PARTY! Star Trek's Birthday Party.

OCTOBER 2008 MEETING - TBD.

PARTY! Harry Halloween.

NOVEMBER 2008 MEETING - The Hugo winning novel announced at Denvention 3.

... Hugo nominees for Best Novel are: not yet announced.

DECEMBER 2008 MEETING - The Hugo winning short story announced at Denvention 3.

NOVEMBER 2010 MEETING - The Hugo winning novel announced at Aussiecon Four.

DECEMBER 2010 MEETING - The Hugo winning short story announced at Aussiecon Four.

PARTY! Harry Holidays.

HARRY IN THE YEAR 2011

This year's itinerary...

JANUARY 2011 MEETING - AT THE BORDERS BOOKSTORE AT THE STRIP. Thanks Traci at Borders! Movie fanac as Harry reviews the holiday film season. The New Year in Media was discussed. Favorite sf websites were also on-topic.

OCTOBER 2011 MEETING - The Hunger Games, (The Hunger Games #1), by Suzanne Collins. A scary topic of discussion.

PARTY! Harry Halloween.

NOVEMBER 2011 MEETING - Blackout, a novel by Connie Willis. This is "All Clear #1." Blackout/All Clear won the Hugo Award for Best Novel at Renovation, the Reno Worldcon in August.

DECEMBER 2011 MEETING - "For Want Of a Nail," by Mary Robinette Kowal, is the Hugo winning short story announced at Renovation in August. That makes it our topic for the December meeting. This can be read in Asimov's SF Magazine if you have a subscription, but you can also find it for free on the author's webpages at
http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com.

PARTY! Harry Holidays.

HARRY IN THE YEAR 2012

This year's itinerary...

JANUARY 2012 MEETING - AT THE NORTH CANTON PUBLIC LIBRARY (not the usual monthly location). Electronic Media & the Movies.

MAY 2012 MEETING - Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse), a novel by James S. A. Corey, is Harry's topic of discussion.

The Nebula Awards Banquet is held in May.

JUNE 2012 MEETING - It's Classics Revisited at Harry. The classic work, Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper, is revisted in Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi. Little Fuzzy will be available for free at Project Gutenberg, or found in various reprints over the years.

JULY 2012 MEETING - Harry reads "Ponies," by Kij Johnson, the winner of the Nebula Award for Best Short Story, as announced at May 2011's Nebula Banquet. Try this link for an online copy: www.kijjohnson.com

PARTY! Summer Frolic.

AUGUST 2012 MEETING - To Ride Pegasus by Anne McCaffrey.

WorldCon: Chicago, IL, USA. Chicon 7 will choose the works that Harry will read for the December 2012 and February 2013 meetings.

OCTOBER 2012 MEETING - A scary topic of discussion. Local writer T.J. McFadden has, among his novels and other works, a series of stories about zombies. "Apocalypse and Andy," by T.J. McFadden will be discussed at the meeting.

PARTY! Harry Halloween.

NOVEMBER 2012 MEETING - Powers, a novel by Ursula K LeGuin.

DECEMBER 2012 MEETING - "The Paper Menagerie," by Ken Liu, is the Hugo winning short story announced at Chicon 7 in August. That makes it our topic for the December meeting.

NO PARTY! :( Harry Holidays 2012 was not held.

HARRY IN THE YEAR 2013

This year's itinerary...

JANUARY 2013 MEETING - AT THE NORTH CANTON PUBLIC LIBRARY (not the usual monthly location). Electronic Media and the Movies.

December 2015 Meeting - "Jackalope Wives," by Ursula Vernon is the short story to read for the meeting. It is available on-line. Meeting topic will be the winner of the Hugo Award for Best Short Story announced at Worldcon. Usually. But this year, the fans voted that the Short Story category should receive No Award. I.e. no story on the ballot rose to the quality needed to win. Instead, we will be reading this year's Nebula Award winner chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Writers' Association.

PARTY! Harry Holidays?

HARRY IN THE YEAR 2016

This year's itinerary...

JANUARY 2016 - (Party at M+D's) Fall and Winter TV and Movies.

PARTY! Harry's 39th Anniversary. Arrowhead Country Club.

Oddmall came to Canton.

FEBRUARY 2016 MEETING - Topic: The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu, the Hugo winning novel as determined by 2015's Worldcon